Stay On Target: An X-Wing Podcast

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Recorded in an undisclosed starship hangar, these three pilots try to give back to the X-Wing community by providing interesting topics for veterans to rookies. Ships, local meta news, tournament dates and strategies are included in the discussion as CooMasterCoo, DHaus and Franch remind everyone to have fun, fly casual but always remember to....Stay On Target! Part of the Twenty One Network.

Recorded in an undisclosed starship hangar, these three pilots try to give back to the X-Wing community by providing interesting topics for veterans to rookies. Ships, local meta news, tournament dates and strategies are included in the discussion as CooMasterCoo, DHaus and Franch remind everyone to have fun, fly casual but always remember to....Stay On Target! Part of the Twenty One Network.

Recorded in an undisclosed starship hangar, these three pilots try to give back to the X-Wing community by providing interesting topics for veterans to rookies. Ships, local meta news, tournament dates and strategies are included in the discussion as CooMasterCoo, DHaus and Franch remind everyone to have fun, fly casual but always remember to....Stay On Target! Part of the Twenty One Network.

Episodes

Gordon, Mikhail, and guest Ryan Fleming discuss the typical things you'd expect on a show that's about X-Wing, but we all know why Ryan is there, right? You'll know when it's time to stop listening if you don't care about the inevitable Pittsburgh Steelers sportsball talk. Sorry, no timestamps either. Failing to write down the time stamps is what happens when Franch isn't there, so blame him, not Gordon. In fact, that's sage advice for just about everything: blame Franch.

GOOOOOOD MORNING X-WING!!!! Hey, this is....wait, wrong show. Sorry.
The whole gang is finally back together again as Mikhail resumes his cohosting responsibilities once more after being extradited to Kentucky from Florida. Obviously that's not true, but this is what happens when they let Gordon write the preview copy. So listen in on some War Stories (what they played recently), some Flight Prep (GenCon predictions), and everyone's favorite segement: Steelers Talk (Steelers...

Louisville Hyperspace Trial winner Joe Konopa and local Louisville player Rebel Mike join a Mikhail-less cast to discuss the recent tourney that was held in the Bluegrass state. The cast then attempts to host a trail of their own -- of the legal variety -- in which Rebel Beef stands accused. Yes...funnier in concept than execution.
00:00 - INTRO & WAR STORIES | 40:00 - SOT COURT | 01:50:45 - FLIGHT PREP | 1:56:30 - STOLEN PLANS

You're not alone, Gordon didn't know what that meant either. Tune in to find out! Oh look, it's Episode 50. That's right...Stay On Target, where half the amount of content produced takes twice as long! This week's show is mostly the past month's FFG news and discussions about the emerging meta in both formats. Yes, we discuss the elephant in the room.
51:00 - HYPERSPACE | 1:17:00 - EXTENDED

Gordon and Mikhail are joined this week by special guest Ryan Staniszewski of the OCX podcast to discuss their recent experience at the Hyperspace Trial that was held in Springfield, Ohio. In fact, one of them won the tournament! You'll never guess who!! Listen to find out!!! Okay, fine, the title of the episode has a hint!!!!

Mostly about dice, less about men. "Getting diced" sure has come up as a topic a lot lately, so the Stay on Target crew thought they'd chime in as well by compiling amazing amounts of statistical research alongside copious amounts of insight. And then Asa from Back to Dials publishes an article on the day we record that summarizes it all better than we ever could. What a jerk. So we have him on as a guest during his lunch break.
05:30 - WAR STORIES | 35:30 - HYPERSPACE TRIAL PREDICTIONS |...

Was there meta-talk? Of course. Speculation about the upcoming point changes? You betcha. A detailed analysis about the Separatist Alliance preview? Eh, not so much. But there was a lot talk about the recent Outryder Cup VIII event that was recently held in Indianapolis. The crew shares their Outryder experiences, and then Gordon drops an unexpected bombshell.
2:45 - WAR STORIES | 1:05:30 - FLIGHT PREP | 01:41:40 - STOLEN PLANS | 01:50:00 - STEELERS TALK

The release of two new factions makes for a great excuse to get together and record a new episode, right? You would think so, so we decided to do this at the last minute -- apparently Franch doesn't do "last minute." That's okay, Mikhail has an opinion about everything and carries the show because he actually plays the game of XWing (where as Gordon has played just *once* since the last episode). We also spend time with our producer David Cottingham, who shares with us how his X-Wing 2.0...

Eeeew. It had been a month since the last episode and the Steelers just lost another game, so we had no choice but to record a new show and asked Ryan Fleming to once again join us. It's strictly pure coincidence that Ryan also earned his World's ticket at the recent System Open in Philadelphia, but this let us talk actual X-Wing for awhile, thereby keeping the whining about the Steelers to a relative minimum at the end.
11:45 - WAR STORIES | 45:00 - FLIGHT PREP | 01:15:00 - STOLEN PLANS |...

This episode was recorded on Gordon's 52nd birthday. As tempting as it might have been to make the entire discussion about just him -- which would have been really great, mind you -- special guest Mark Moriarty joined the crew to talk about actual X-Wing content. Even Gordon couldn't ignore something as rare as that on this show. Listen in as Mark discusses the Fundamentals of List Building that sometimes eludes newer and older players alike.
6:40 - WAR STORIES | 27:45 - META TALK | 41:10 -...

Getting us together to record these days is basically a miracle. Almost didn't happen again! But record we did. There's some brief discussion of a Second Edition tourney Mikhail and Franch attended and then some discussion about more X-Wing stuff. Don't really remember what it was all supposed to be about because Gordon just couldn't get past Franch being, well, Franch. Regardless, Steelers talk was kept to a minimum at the end of the show. You're welcome.

At least Franch wrote up our show notes, so not a complete loss. With our little tricycle of a podcast still missing its third wheel, Gordon and Mikhail try to pedal along by talking about the recent lists they've flown before eventually asking Ryan Fleming to hop on and save us. After all, Coruscant is this weekend, so who better to talk Coruscant with than Ryan? Turns out Ryan agreed to join us only if he was allowed to complain about the Steelers. After Ryan's rant, we washed his mouth...

Gordon would have preferred to have had the episode titled "You must unlearn what you have learned", said in his best Yoda voice no less, but Mikhail was inclined to go with the quote by a whiny, murderous brat.
Having not recorded for almost two months, it was finally time to get together again to share their thoughts on the sunset that was X-Wing First Edition and the dawn of new era that begins this week with the launch of X-Wing Second Edition.
Non-football fans (or just non-Steelers...

We mean that sort of literally. We spoke with Andrew Savoie, who happens to be an actual M.D. What does that have to do with X-Wing? Absolutely nothing, but we're still impressed. Turns out Andrew used to play X-Wing years ago. Now that he's done with his residency, he has more free time and thought he'd give X-Wing another go. Has he heard the good news? Does he know about X-Wing 2.0? We interview him to find out.

Mikhail and Franch share Worlds stories from their recent trip to Minnesota, but it becomes clear soon enough that the crew wanted to talk more about the recently announced X-Wing 2nd Edition. 00:30 - WORLDS | 50:00 - X-WING 2.0